albuspercivalwulfric:

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miakosamuio:

staticstart:

These books are totally too big for six year olds. I didn’t even like it (at first) when I read it when I was eight. That’s not to say that I decide all things six year olds like but I mean, they wouldn’t have understood a word of it.

My sister is six and she’s read chapters of PS before. Just because you wouldn’t have understood doesn’t mean other people are lying.

I read Harry Potter when I was 6. My 7th birthday party was Harry Potter themed. I wrote Harry Potter fanfiction when I was 7. Sure, I didn’t understand the themes and all the plot but I thought Ron was funny and loved Hogwarts and thought it was an exciting adventure. Obviously a 6 year old can’t understand the books to the same extent as someone who is older. But the thing with Harry Potter is that it can be understood on so many different levels.

My older sister read most of Chamber of Secrets to me before I was good enough at reading to read them properly for myself (we didn’t own Philosopher’s Stone until I was interested). Why couldn’t someone else have that count as their first reading of the book? I also do remember most of it, it’s some of my fondest memories of time with my sister as a young child (we got along fine, but nowhere near as close as some people are with their siblings so that was exactly it; we got along)

I started reading them when I was 7, I was reading at an abnormally high level when I was 4, it’s not difficult to understand Harry Potter at 6.

Just because you weren’t an advanced child, doesn’t mean nobody else could’ve been.

I agree with some of the other posts above, just because you couldn’t understand it at that age doesn’t mean everyone else can’t. I read the first Harry Potter book when I was 6 and my cousin who is 9 now has just finished reading the whole series, he started when he was 7. It’s not that uncommon. And having recently gone back and read the first book again, I actually don’t think that there is much I didn’t understand or pick up on back then. The first book is aimed towards younger readers, the books mature as the characters and readers do, and therefore the first book isn’t too difficult anyway.

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